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I Love My Wife (But She Doesn’t Like Stephen King)
December 16, 2020
I don’t generally post anything that contributes to the silly King vs. Koontz idea, but this one’s clever, fun, and well done.
What’s New & Updated December 14, 2020
December 14, 2020
Just one new item today but, to me at least, it’s a big one. (I was expecting another item in today’s mail but alas, it was delayed.)
- A Darkness in My Soul original Jack Gaughan painting. More full-sized photos on the book’s page.
What’s New & Updated December 7, 2020
December 7, 2020
A bunch of super random items this week including a cut joke from a film, a TV mention, and some music.
- Foreword to How to Reach Eternity by Daniel Love to Appendix F
- I Heard Angels Sign by Lisle Crowley to Innocence
- The Other Emily ARC
- Saved By the Bell 2020 s01e07: House Party to Appendix B, TV References
- Winter Moon original score inspired by the Dean R Koontz novel by Electric Supply Station
Poor clipart choices
December 6, 2020
Sometimes I just love the covers of foreign translated editions of Dean’s work. Others are just horrible. This Icelandic translation of The Good Guy isn’t good or bad, but Chad on Twitter has a completely legit question.
Dean (Dane) gets a shout out on the new Saved By the Bell
December 5, 2020
Saved by the Bell (2020) s01e07: House Party
What’s New & Updated November 30, 2020
November 30, 2020
Previews, interviews, videos, and inscriptions. A big of a random set of new items today but more than I’ve been posting lately.
- Shot video on how Dean came up with Nameless.
- Del Rey Manga Summer 2008 Sampler to In Odd We Trust
- The Other Emily by Dean Koontz | Coming Soon (video)
- Dean Koontz in Conversation with Jeffrey Deaver (Texas Book Festival) to Appendix B
- In Conversation On Elsewhere with Dean Koontz & Benjamin Percy (Miami Book Fair) to Appendix B
- Interesting inscriptions added to The Door to December and Starblood
- Thriller Talk interview to Appendix B
Dean Koontz on Thriller Talk
November 30, 2020
What’s New & Updated November 23, 2020
November 23, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the US. Really not much else to say other than here’s two new items for your reference (and possible ordering pleasure.)
- Devoted limited edition
- From the Desk of Dean Koontz: Coming March 2021 The Other Emily
Don’t ask me for the lottery numbers
November 22, 2020
A few months ago I mentioned how I’d never previously seen a copy of The Drowned Man’s Reel for sale anywhere. Last week I questioned the release of any limited editions in the future. Well…
Here’s another copy of The Drowned Man’s Reel up for auction on eBay, and here’s the page to order the forthcoming limited edition of Devoted.
What’s New & Updated November 16, 2020
November 16, 2020
Another small update but I’ve also got a line on some unique items. Neither will show up soon or maybe not at all but it’s too early to tell.
- The Other Emily cover image
- Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner to Appendix G
Last Dangerous Visions to be completed by J. Michael Straczynski
November 16, 2020
When Harlan Ellison died in 2018, he left behind a project that he’d long promised to complete: The Last Dangerous Visions, an infamous third anthology that would have followed his Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions anthologies.
Now, it looks like it’ll be completed, nearly half a century after its first intended publication date. Ellison’s friend and now estate executor J. Michael Straczynski (the creator of Babylon 5 and co-creator of Sense8) has promised that he’ll complete the anthology.
The Last Dangerous Visions is something of a white whale for Ellison. In 1967, he rounded up a number of authors writing in the genre and produced Dangerous Visions, an acclaimed anthology that included 33 original stories from authors such as Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Carol Emshwiller, and others. The anthology was hailed for pushing the boundaries of science fiction amidst the New Wave movement, and earned considerable praise from reviewers.
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Notably, Straczynski says that there are several publishers who are interested in publishing the massive, three-volume anthology, although he’ll work on completing the entire project first before submitting it for publication, which he says will happen in March and April 2021.
Read the full article @ TOR.com
Crime Reads releases the cover and an excerpt from The Other Emily
November 16, 2020
The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Other Emily, by Dean Koontz. We are thrilled to reveal the cover of this gripping new thriller, which will be released in March 2021. It’s been ten years since Emily was presumed to have been killed by a serial killer, and her partner David is still determined to figure out what happened. But then he meets Maddison, a woman who seems exactly like the love he lost.
Read the excerpt @ Crime Reads
The end of limited editions?
November 16, 2020
According to Paul Worosello “Joe at Charnel House told me that he was not doing any of the new Koontz books. I figured it was a thing with his new publisher.”
I can’t say I have any special insight into Dean’s deal with Amazon but I can’t say I’m surprised that there’s a significant amount of exclusivity built into the deal.
Dean Koontz on Thriller Talk
November 13, 2020
12 November 2020
K.J. and Ryan launch the first episode of Thriller Talk with the prolific author Dean Koontz.
What’s New & Updated November 9, 2020
November 9, 2020
The other writing project was submitted to the editor so other than what will most likely be a final post-edit read-through that’s done so I was able to get back to this “little’ project.
There’s just two new items this week but the first one’s a previously unknown find.
- Girl [blank] a [blank] as by unknwon
- Les passagers (French film tie-in paperback)
What’s isn’t New & Updated October 26, 2020
October 26, 2020
I’ve got a big ol’ goose egg for you this week. As I mentioned last time around, I had to focus on a writing project this week.
What’s New & Updated October 19, 2020
October 19, 2020
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- Southern California News Group Newsmaker Series: A Conversation with Dean Koontz to Appendix B and the official recording to this blog post.
Dean’s Newport Beach home sold for $10.3 million
October 14, 2020
The circa-1933 house fetched $10.325 million.
Designed by pioneering “Architect to the Stars” Paul R. Williams and later remodeled, this 3,400-square-foot residence with three bedrooms, five bathrooms and seamless indoor-outdoor living areas makes the most of its Balboa Peninsula Point location.
The two-story traditional-style home sits on an oversized 45-foot lot with a patio, dock and dock pavilion.
Most rooms offer a view of the harbor.
Koontz and his wife, Gerda, bought the house in September 1995, property records show, while the couple’s Newport Coast mega-mansion was under construction. In April, the compound sold to Stearns Lending founder Glenn Stearns for an all-time Orange County record of $50 million. The Koontzes held onto the smaller “beach house” for six years and spent “just 30 nights” there, the author wrote in “A Big Little Life.”
Source: The Orange County Register
Southern California News Group Newsmaker Series: A Conversation with Dean Koontz
October 14, 2020
Recorded live on October 13, 2020.
What’s New & Updated October 12, 2020
October 12, 2020
Yes folks it’s Elsewhere week. Oh, and two reviews from 1974.
- Elsewhere ARC (image & details), Kindle In-motion, trade hardcover & CD audiobook
- From the Desk of Dean: Elsewhere is Now Available
- Interviews to Appendix B
- “At book 78 and counting, Dean Koontz has no drought of ideas” (AP)
- Podcasts to Appendix B
- Author Live Series with Dean Koontz
- Book Launch : Dean Koontz discusses Elsewhere
- Otherppl
- Writer’s Bone
- The Kindle Chronicles
- Luna Monthly #52 to A Werewolf Among Us and “The Sinless Child”